Convert Properties files to JSON

I was working on an app for a client in NativeScript that was a conversion from iOS. This application required 35 language translations in which they had all the translations in iOS .properties files. I received both zipped and unzipped variations from them. Instead of converting these over to JSONs manually, I created this NODE task to do it for me.

Assumption

This task is assume that your properties files will be named similarly to mine ({{string}}_{{locale}}.properties or {{string}}_{{locale}}.properties.zip). I will split the name of the file on _ and grab the second part for the new file name, which will be placed into a json folder. FYI - I am also running the whole object through a sanitizer to remove double escaping that happens in the buffer stream.

How to use

• Download the repo
• Run npm install
• Place your files into the strings folder
• Run node convert.js

Contributing

If you have ideas, feel free to get in touch and let me know. Or if you want to suggest something, feel free to create a pull request with your ideas.